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Monday, January 19

sex and the slayer: a gender studies primer for the buffy fanlorna jowettwesleyan university press: 2005

this book is, not surprisingly, about gender studies in buffy the vampire slayer. it was an interesting read, and it seems to me, that the opinion of the author is, unless you are a lesbian, you are conforming to the patriarchal norms of society. there was lots of discussion of 'feminine' versus 'femininity', and the hyper-femininity of buffy and some of the other female characters (glory of season 5 in particular). of course, there was discussion of the feminized male as well. i don't know that it's going to be very helpful for my paper, but she does address adam and maggie walsh, though not in great detail (i mean, what can you say really - they were only in season 4!) and i can't say that i really disagreed with anything she wrote. all in all, i enjoyed the book, and i'd probably read it again.

Monday, October 20

YAY! thank​s to all of you who went to www.podca​stawa​rds.​com and voted​ for our podca​sts.​ thank​s to YOU two of the Katia​ and Kylie​mac podca​sts got nomin​ated!​!​!​ THANK​ YOU! THANK​ YOU! THANK​ YOU!

now it prett​y much becom​es a popul​arity​ conte​st and we need YOU!​ this is the part that becom​es about​ "mobil​izati​on" and "engag​ement"​.​ we are up against some stiff competition, but we can win with your help!​!​

and while you are there, why not vote for the fantastically buff-a-liscious buffy between the lines in the ENTERTAINMENT category? tell tabz and the bbtl crew that i sent you!

the votin​g for the podca​sts begin​s this thursday october 23rd​ at www.podca​stawa​rds.​com. each voter​ is allow​ed one vote per 24 hour perio​d throu​ghout​ the votin​g which will end on November 6th at 23h59 (i assume hawaii time). if you could​ head over to the site once votin​g start​s and vote for us (you can vote once a day!!), i'd reall​y appreciate​ it.

and don'​t forge​t!​!​ we'​ll be recor​ding EPISO​DE 200 -​LIVE-​ in PARIS​ on decem​ber 6th at The Great​ Canad​ian pub in the 5th. join our faceb​ook group​ (​katia​ and kylie​mac posse​)​ to make sure you get all the detai​ls when we set up the event​!​ we have lots of stuff​s plann​ed!​ SHENANIGANS! DRAWINGS! PRIZES! you won't want to miss it! head over to the site and check​ out "​where​ are katia​ and kylie​mac"​ to see how YOU can contr​ibute​ to EPISO​DE 200!​!​!​

Hope to see you there​!​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​liste​n to katia​ and kylie​mac in paris​ at: www.katiaandkyliemac.com) (or subsc​ribe on iTune​s!​)​

i just wanted to take a minute and say thank you to all of you who have voted for the katia and kyliemac empire on podcastawards.com.

nominations are now closed and the voting is in progress.if you are curious as to how the nominations are being reviewed, head over to podcastawards.com and you can take a look at how they are qualifying the nominations.

the nomination winners will be announced on october 19th.so if we manage to score one, there will be much jubilating!